Japanese protest "pollution" against US Military Base in Okinawa

What this article (below) about the latest Japanese protest against the US military does not mention is that the "pollution" the Japanese are now protesting is none other than the eternal radioactive contamination of so-called "Depleted" Uranium by the US military on the Okinawa island in Japan. (See below for a bit of history).

Why are we in the US not similarly protesting this "DU" pollution and contamination of our own nation, taking place in states like MD, CA, NV, NM, AZ, AK (and these are only the current "testing" and "training" sites) ?

Why are Americans not similarly demanding that these military bases, proving grounds, and national weapons laboratories cease and desist this radioactive poisoning of our people and our environment?

It is apparent the Japanese are much more "on the ball" than we are, because nothing less than radioactive WAR is being waged upon us - right here at home.

Yes, in plain and simple English, this is the truth! This is nothing less than radiological warfare being waged upon us in the US by our very own ... invisible ionizing radiation being dispersed "under the radar" in various forms, the top 3 being:

(a) US so-called "DU" weapons "testing" and "training" inside the US, conducted outdoors (also include in this the demolition and burning of Uranium-contaminate d areas and radioactive materials);

(b) 104 commercial nuclear reactors (not including the weapons labs' and other "research" reactors) that leak, are routinely vented and purged of radioactive releases in our air, water, and soil; and

(c) The entire Uranium/Plutonium weapons production and manufacturing cycle.
Keep in mind radioactive weapons include both nuclear and the variety they call "conventional, " i.e., the kind of radioactive weaponry the US military uses every day on the people of Afghanistan and Iraq, for starters ... including the "testing" of these life-destroying and DNA-and-cell- mutating radionuclides in the US, out in our open air!

Can anyone tell me why we are content to roll over and meekly accept this purposeful radiation poisoning... by our very own government, no less?!

It is quite obvious we need to take a lesson from the Japanese who are, yet again, boldly standing up to the US War Monster-Bully, stating - with appropriate righteous moral outrage: NO MORE to US military bases and occupying military beasts on their soils!

The same radioactive wars being waged overseas have been waged on Americans by those in power here since the over 1,000 atomic tests first began in the US in the early 1940s. http://www.animatedsoftware.com/poifu/poifu.swf

While they may have stopped the nuclear weapons testing outdoors, tis true... as a substitute, the US radiation-lovers in power have steadily and continuously employed *other* methods of radioactive contamination of our American environment for well into seven (7) decades instead!

Time to turn off the tube, America! Time now to look to Japan and say NO to the US military occupation, "pollution," and radioactive contamination of our own country!

Cathy Garger


Japanese protest against US military base
Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:42:16 GMT

Thousands of Japanese citizens have protested against the presence of a large US military base in the southern island of Okinawa ahead of President Barack Obama's visit on Friday.

Some 21,000 Okinawan residents gathered for the rally on Sunday, according to organizers.

Protesters from all walks of life applauded Ginowan mayor Yoichi Iha's speech in a park near the US Marine Corps Futenma Air Base in Ginowan city.

"I urge Prime Minister (Yukio) Hatoyama to tell President Obama that Okinawa needs no more US bases," Iha said at the rally.

"I urge Prime Minister Hatoyama to make a brave decision and put an end to Okinawa's burden and ordeal."

Vowing a less subservient relationship with the US, Japan's new center-left government has said it may want the base moved off the island or even out of the country.

Washington, however, has demanded Tokyo honor a 2006 agreement under which the Futenma base would be closed, but its air operations moved to an alternative site to be built on Okinawa by 2014 in the coastal Camp Schwab area.

The US has about 47,000 troops based in Japan, more than half of them on the island of Okinawa. Local residents have been angered by crimes committed by US service personnel as well as aircraft noise, pollution and the risk of accidents.

In 1995, rape of a schoolgirl by three US servicemen infuriated Okinawans. Demands to close the base on safety grounds grew when a US helicopter crashed in the grounds of a local university in 2004.

Earlier on Sunday, Japan's Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada said the issue cannot be expected to be finalized during Obama's visit, adding it needs more time to be resolved.

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http://www.presstv.com/classic/detail.aspx?id=110741&sectionid=351020406
Here is a bit more background on the justified Japanese opposition to the US using Okinawa for its war training fun.
http://www.presstv.com/classic/detail.aspx?id=109224&sectionid=351020406

A bit about DU in Okanawa...

Bradbury also mentions the less well-known complaints of Japanese and mainland Americans against US bombing exercises conducted near their homes.

1500 rounds of ‘depleted’ uranium ammunition were test-fired on Okinawa in 1995, though it was not admitted publically until 1997. A few weeks ago, as US Marines began exercises in central Okinawa, I caught a fleeting mention on ABC radio of a demonstration of 10,000 people there, a story absent elsewhere in the Australian media as far as I could tell. Locals, including the governor of Okinawa, marched to the front gate of Camp Hansen to object to the firing of live ammunition within 300 metres of people’s homes.

Bradbury’s film does not cover the uproar in the Japanese Diet which forced the US to withdraw its DU weapons from Okinawa, nor the relocation of the weapons to South Korea. Farmers there are no more enthusiastic about military exercises carried out across their fields, which the South Korean government gave to the US. The land is now leased by Lockheed Martin under contract to the Defence Department. US officials finally confessed to having DU munitions in South Korea after a year of denying it.

http://webdiary.com.au/cms/?q=node/730